[GRASS-dev] Layer Manager notebook

[Paulo van Breugel]

On 26-01-16 03:02, Anna Petrášová wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I plan to change the style of the Layer Manager tabs in the bottom of 
> the window from wx.FlatNotebook to wx.Notebook. The results look like 
> this:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1j-R6U3_Ct9RFd1V3JSbDRjdGc/view?usp=sharing
>
> Reasons include:
> * FlatNotebook behaves strangely on Ubuntu 15+ with wxpython3 wxGTK, 
> switching tabs doesn't work well
> * FlatNotebook rendering glitch on MacOSX with wxpython 3 (visible in 
> the screenshot)
> * FlatNotebook causes crashing when switching from 3D to 2D on MacOSX 
> with wxpython 3 http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16357
> * FlatNotebook probably causes loosing focus when switching to command 
> console
> * FlatNotebook probably causes some GDK critical warnings on Ubuntu
>
> Overall, by using native widget (wx.Notebook) we avoid many glitches. 
> However, the appearance will be different for different OS. I 
> personally don't have problem with that, but I would suggest applying 
> this to Mac and Linux, not Windows, because on Windows it looks ugly 
> and since we still use wxpython 2.8, the described glitches don't 
> apply there. Opinions?

Looks good to me on MacOSX and Linux, while you are right about Window.. 
it would look very outdated.
>
>
> Related to this, any opinion on making the labels of the tabs shorter?
>
> Map layers -> Layers
> Command console -> Console
> Search modules -> Search
> Data catalogue -> Catalogue
> Python shell -> Python

+1
>
>
> Best,
> Anna
>
>
>
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